1.   The conservation organisations maintained that Britain was obliged to protect the site under a European Community directive on Birds and the Berne Convention, a European wildlife treaty.

2.   All sites should be protected from damage or development, managed so as to conserve or increase their wildlife value, and monitored.

3.   Americans overwhelmingly believe that all Civil War sites are already protected.

4.   Are we making deals that will track down al-Qaeda in Afghanistan but protect terror sites in Lebanon and Iran and bio-war labs in Iraq?

5.   -- Protecting special sites.

6.   A levee on the Trinity River protects the site from flooding, Peters said.

7.   Both sides, the report said, should consider working together to protect religious sites significant to Jews, Muslims and Christians.

8.   But Bruni is also the scientific director of the Soprintendenza ai Beni Archeologici della Toscana, the government agency that protects archaeological sites in Tuscany.

9.   Gifford will analyze the water and is meeting with local officials to make sure the site is protected.

10.   If so, under a federal law, the Abandoned Shipwreck Act, the state takes title and is obliged to protect the site.